January 2026

Reading time: 2 minutes The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa is expanding its role in shaping the state’s energy and resilience future through a new $1.8-million federal investment supporting advanced visualization and planning tools developed by the UH Laboratory for Advanced Visualization and Applications (LAVA), in partnership with the Hawaiʻi State Energy Office (HSEO). The […]

Reading time: 2 minutes Gov. Josh Green participates in a panel with cancer experts across the U.S. on the future of cancer research. Hawaiʻi Gov. Josh Green emphasized that cancer research and medical science are not only matters of public health, but also essential to national and global security, during a roundtable discussion at the

Reading time: 2 minutes University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa researchers are part of a team that was recently awarded a three-year, $5 million grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) to address the environmental and public health impacts of outdated wastewater infrastructure in island communities. The project is led by the University of South Florida,

Reading time: 2 minutes Coconut rhinoceros beetle larva For more than a decade, the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has been on the front lines of the battle against the invasive coconut rhinoceros beetle (CRB). Now, researchers at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) are seeing progress in a promising weapon: viruses.

Reading time: 2 minutes As artificial intelligence (AI) rapidly reshapes the workplace, new research from University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa economists finds that a college education continues to provide significant labor market advantages, including higher wages and greater adaptability, even as AI adoption accelerates. The new blog by Steven Bond-Smith and Rachel Inafuku of the

Reading time: 2 minutes Female tiger shark. (Photo credit: Cory Fults) New University of Hawaiʻi research confirms that “Sharktober” is real, revealing a statistically significant spike in shark bite incidents in Hawaiian waters every October. The study, which analyzed 30 years of data (1995–2024), found that about 20% of all recorded bites occurred in that

Reading time: < 1 minute (Photo credit: Andre Seale) As the state works to increase local food security, researchers at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa are developing methods to naturally produce more nutritious, faster-growing fish. Building on recent tilapia findings, a study from the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resilience (CTAHR) reveals how

Reading time: 2 minutes Wernli with a tiger shark. (Photo credit: Cory Fults) A team of shark researchers from the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa has solved a long-standing mystery, identifying the first-ever documented mating hub for tiger sharks. The new study, led by the Hawaiʻi Institute of Marine Biology (HIMB) Shark Lab, utilized six

Reading time: 2 minutes AinaFarm project field work A University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa research project focused on agriculture and artificial intelligence (AI) has been selected for support through the NVIDIA Academic Grant Program, bringing additional advanced computing hardware to the university. The project, “AinaFarm: Building the Foundation for Scalable Agricultural Physical AI,” led by